The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
Sometimes major events completely disconnected may be data points for the plans of the different powers around the world. The challenge is to discern what purpose they serve? More critically, what are we moving towards?
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Generally, one has seen Sikhs being treated with various emotions – fear, derision, anger from unknown – outside India specifically. In the books and movies coming from the West, Indians in general and Sikhs in particular, are always caricatured. So it is nice to learn that writer of the Harry Potter series, JK Rowlings has spent a lot of time researching Sikh Culture and Religion before incorporating it in her next book – The Casual Vacancy.
As per people who know, it seems that the book has delved on Guru Nanak Dev, Guru Granth Sahib, Khalsa Panth, and the “night-time prayer, kirtan sohila.” in quite detail.
Struck by the egalitarian principles of Sikhism, she has incorporated Sikh religious details in her story and characters.
“I wanted the Sikh family at the heart of Pagford, and I wanted them to be second generation Britons. So they are insiders and outsiders simultaneously. In the book, it is Sikhism that provides religious morality, not the Church of England, which is represented by an empty church,” Rowling said.
I believe it is time that Sikhs, instead of swinging between feelings of greatness at being different or being defensive about looking different, spend time on sharing what really are the central precepts of Sikhism with the world at large. Spiritual principles shared by the Sikh Gurus are beautiful. They need to be shared with the world. It is time that credible Spiritual minds in the Sikh community dip into the treasure trove left behind by the 10 Gurus to the benefit of the world.
As a result, maybe the Sikhs can differentiate themselves from Osama Bin Laden or the Jehadis, that uninformed people keep alleging they look like with a turban and beards.
The Indian budget every year has always been an eagerly awaited event. For many decades, the best minds in economics, finance, tax, business and industry throng the media house to analyze the provisions shared by the Financial Minister.
When the US Ambassador threatened India's "Strategic Autonomy" policy over India's friendship with Russia - much more than meets the eye was at stake. Let us unpack how the Ukraine war has fundamentally changed the US and the world. And why are we here anyway?
This visit of India left me with many questions. Many observations and inputs from different people and sections. Food for thought that I have tried to contemplate on and make sense of. Sharing all that with you.
When you analyze the last 60 years of the economic miracles of Singapore, South Korea and Malaysia versus the continued impoverished Indian economy, you get very interesting lessons. Can Indians have the wherewithal in them to do in one generation so that the coming generations may rise?
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